Recommended Reading: E. Annie Proulx Interview

by Andre Soares

 

Recommended reading: Matthew Testa’s Dec. 7 interview (I just found it. . .) with Pulitzer-winning author E. Annie Proulx, whose short story “Brokeback Mountain” inspired the current critical and box-office hit.

One brief quote from the interview:

“Excuse me, but it is NOT a story about ‘two cowboys.’ It is a story about two inarticulate, confused Wyoming ranch kids in 1963 who have left home and who find themselves in a personal sexual situation they did not expect, understand nor can manage. The only work they find is herding sheep for a summer[.] Some cowboys!”

The interview for Planet Jackson Hole can be found here.

More Brokeback Mountain Trivia

Brokeback Mountain review

London Film Critics’ Circle 2005 nominees

Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2005 Golden Globe Award nominations

List of the Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics’ Choice Awards 2005 nominees

 

 

by Andre Soares | December 30, 2005 | Filed Under American Cinema / Hollywood, Film, Gay & Lesbian, Q&A's / Interviews 

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  1. Administrator on January 8th, 2006 3:25 pm

    [Note from moderator. This comment originally came from LARRY NELSON, but was erroneously deleted by the site's anti-spam plugin. I'm resubmitting it. Hopefully it's all here.]

    This story was heart wrenching….for days my wife and I could think of nothing else. It was so thought provoking and many questions are in our minds….such as are homosexual tendency’s like a garden if cultivated flourish or if not become dormant and wither away? Did Ennis’ comment that Jack made him that way true or was that an excuse? Was society’s norms or possible religious indoctrination so strong that if they married they would outgrow their cravings? It seems to us that if Jake and Ennis had gone to Jake’s family’s rundown farm to run it they could have perhaps taken the risk to find love in an open relationship could have saved them from leading such empty sad and hurt lives with their families. that was free of repression,

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